Author: ProHoster

On New Ideas, Narrowness, and Word of Mouth (Friday)

Understand, student, now you need to be gentler with people ... And look at questions more broadly. A long time ago(10 days), in a galaxy(Habr) far, far away…war will not Bee 😉 Anyway, I made a post about an apiary sms weighing system that didn't get as much publicity as bikes. Oh well , did not grieve from that, but decided […]

From algorithms to cancer: lectures from school on bioinformatics

In the summer of 2018, an annual summer school on bioinformatics was held near St. Petersburg, where 100 undergraduate and graduate students came to study bioinformatics and learn about its use in various fields of biology and medicine. The main focus of this school was on cancer research, but there were lectures in other areas of bioinformatics, ranging from evolution to data analysis […]

Video: the start of pre-orders of the military thriller Hell Let Loose and early access from June 6

Publishing house Team17 and studio Black Matter presented a new trailer dedicated to the action movie being created in the surroundings of the Second World War, Hell Let Loose. The developers announced in the video that the game will enter Steam Early Access on June 6, and have now shared information on pre-orders. It is not yet possible to pre-order on Steam, but this option is available on the official website. Eat […]

Quantic Dream has removed the system requirements for Detroit: Become Human and other games from the Epic Games Store

The announcement of the PC versions of Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls at the recent GDC 2019 exhibition in San Francisco surprised many - Epic Games acquired attractive console exclusives for its store. After the presentation, pages for the above-mentioned games appeared on the Epic Games Store. Users immediately noted the strange system requirements, which were the same for all projects. Now they have disappeared from [...]

STALKER 2 showed signs of life again

GSC Game World, the creators of the STALKER series that is largely responsible for the worldwide interest in Eastern European aesthetics in games, has made a surprise appearance on social media. The company has launched a marketing campaign for STALKER 2 and shared the first image since the game was announced in May 2018. The activity began in January, when the official STALKER Facebook page began sharing memories from 8 years ago […]

Video: Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel will receive DLC with new graphics and textures the other day

Gearbox at PAX East 2019 has some good news for fans of the Borderlands series. Among other announcements (the main of which is, of course, the third part), a free update for Borderlands: The Handsome Collection was presented, which will be released on April 3rd. The DLC will bring texture support for 4K resolution, HDR, and a number of other improvements to PC, PS4 Pro, and Xbox One X. […]

Small DARPA satellite delivered into orbit by ultra-light Rocket Lab rocket

US private aerospace company Rocket Lab's Electron rocket successfully completed its first flight this year from a launch facility in New Zealand, sending an experimental communications satellite from DARPA into orbit. For the fledgling company Rocket Lab, which began manufacturing rockets in 2017, this was only the third commercial launch of the Electron rocket, and only the fifth launch in […]

3D printing center will appear in Moscow before the end of 2019

The fuel company TVEL, which is part of the state corporation Rosatom, announces that a Center for Additive Technologies will appear in the Russian capital this year. We are talking about creating a specialized platform for 3D printing. Appropriate technologies are rapidly gaining popularity. The fact is that 3D printing systems can significantly speed up the creation of prototypes, as well as reduce the number of design details and reduce […]

Positive Technologies announced the discovery of a new potential “bookmark” in Intel chips

It is unlikely that anyone will argue with the fact that processors are rather complex solutions that simply cannot work without self-diagnostics and sophisticated control tools both at the manufacturing stage and during operation. Developers simply must have the means of "omnipotence" in order to be completely confident in the suitability of the product. And these tools are not going anywhere. IN […]

Back to microservices with Istio. Part 3

Note. transl.: The first part of this cycle was devoted to getting acquainted with the capabilities of Istio and demonstrating them in action, the second - to fine-tuned routing and network traffic management. Now we will talk about security: to demonstrate the basic functions related to it, the author uses the Auth0 identity service, but other providers can be configured by analogy with it. We set up […]

Back to microservices with Istio. Part 2

Note. transl.: The first part of this series was devoted to getting acquainted with the capabilities of Istio and demonstrating them in action. Now we will talk about more complex aspects of configuring and using this service mesh, and in particular about finely tuned routing and network traffic management. We also remind you that the article uses configurations (manifests for Kubernetes and Istio) […]

Back to microservices with Istio. Part 1

Note. Transl.: Service meshes have definitely become a relevant solution in modern infrastructure for applications following microservice architecture. While Istio may be on the radar of many DevOps engineers, it is a fairly new product that, while complex in terms of features it provides, can take a significant amount of time to get to know. German engineer Rinor Maloku, in charge of cloud computing for large customers in the telecom […]